www.AmericanSecurityToday.com September 2020 - Edition
(During a news conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Attorney General
Barr slammed calls from Democratic officials to defund police departments in large
cities. Courtesy of The Hill and YouTube. Posted on Sep 9, 2020.)
Budgetary pressures arising from
reduced state and local tax revenues
due to lessened business
activity during the pandemic
will put additional strains on
funding new entrants to police
departments.
Also, the emergence of calls to
categorically defund the police
or to otherwise reduce police
budgets going forward introduces
unprecedented fiscal uncertainty
with likely negative
repercussions on the overall
recruiting and staffing environment.
The realities of social distancing
are also a substantial potential
source of individual officer
stress.
Some members of the public are
likely to be on edge due to the
consequences of the novel coro-
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